OK. That, I think, is good news because it was a nasty. I see from IRC that Feb 23rd am snap was also a little under suspicion so I shall wait until you guys feel you've got a goodie before I burn another frisbee. Or at least, learn to put them on thumb drives.

I've trashed the MDs and in fact replace /usr/pluto/bin/Network_Firewall.sh with the 1004 version and I'm busy rebuilding the MD. So far it is looking better - it's downloading videodrivers and stuff which it didn't before.

Dropping back to the 1004 script may be a bit extreme but it will be interesting to see...

I don't have commit rights to SVN, and to be quite honest, I don't want commit rights. I'll plug away fixing stuff I'm capable of, usually SysAdmin type stuff 'cause that's what I do, do up patches and stuff them into Trac. Someone more knowledgable than I about LMCE internals can take 'em, leave 'em, tweak 'em, whatever. I'll just do what I can do, and let others do what they're good at.

Hope that clarifies things!

/Mike

It does, thanks for the input and the info. I'm trying to learn at the same time so having some background sysadmin type detail posted helps me a lot.

Phenigma - you want what the original DVD (installer) put in resolve.conf? I'm afraid that's lost now to me as I have the new snap and have installed.

Possy fixed that stuff and the new installer went through very smoothly on the core/hybrid.

MKBrown - sounds as if you have some idea there but please liase with possy before applying anything. The original problem that I noted above has definitely been resolved by his latest snapshot but there may still be some work to do. When I get a moment I'll read what you've written and try to understand it all.

Hopefully not premature, but if anyone else hits this gotcha, here's how I fixed it.

The problem: Right in the beginning of the installer, just after language selection, the installer checks requirements and reports on two things- The disk space (8.6Gb required) and the internet connection.

When the screen comes up, my internet connectinons is initially ticked (ie passes the test) and then it turns to a no-entry sign - ie fails the test and then the option to download updates while installing is also disabled.

I traced and resolved the problem as follows:- "quitting" the installation which took me to an Ubuntu live desktop session- opened a terminal to check network- ping worked but no dns -> ie ping www.google.com failed but pinging the IP for www.google.com passed.- modified /etc/resolv.conf: deleted the existing nameservers and replaced with the address of my local modem-router (192.168.10.1) which, I presume, forwards DNS requests to my ISP's nameservers.- thereafter I was able to ping www.google.com successfully.- Then re-ran the LinuxMCE12.04 installation from the desktop icon

This time, when I got to requirements, internet connection stayed clicked and I was able to proceed with installation.

I traced the problem to DNS. For some reason the nameservers specified in /etc/resolv.conf do not work for me so I just replaced them with a pointer to my local adsl-modem-router address (192.168.10.1) and that fixed it.

None of these problems *appear* to be system problems with LMCE. I (and none of the devs) are experiencing issues like this. Ususally this is down to NIC problems or other network problems (cabling, switches)...

J.

If it is related to my hardware.... then it's a specific combination of 12.04 because I switch back to 10.04 (just boot a different HDD in the exact same equipment and it's hunky dory.

Once everything calmed down and I managed to get the GNU GRUB menu I selected Ubuntu with Linux.

I can report I also got the GNU GRUB menu at one point. Also had the "is connected to internet" error but phenigma reports below this is a known issue.

Regarding eth0 / eth1 - I have a working 10.04 installation on the same machine (different HDD) so I just keep that the same although I completely unplug the internal network NIC while installing so as not to confuse anything and that seems to work. Incidentally, this is with eth0 as external NIC.

In addition, I noted:

unable to resolve "download.videolan.org" - at some point

/etc/rc2.d/S9??? - some problem on line 72 of one of these scripts but I didn't catch which at some point.

If I had to guess I would say that it sounds like some serious networking problems during install prevented the system from configuring and installing properly. That is my reaction from all of your posts I have just read.

I don't think that's a bad guess. I had some errors come up during the installation regarding networking but when all was done and dusted the network was up and things were working. I wasn't sure if the issues were real or what everyone experiences.

I'll have a look at my install notes and see if I noted the errors, otherwise I'll clobber another install and take screenshots the old fashioned way.